2008/776/EC: Commission Decision of 6 October 2008 amending Decision 2007/365/EC on emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Community of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (notified under document number C(2008) 5550)
Date: 2008-10-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fight against insects, parasitology, plant disease, plant health control, protection of plant life, tree

L 266/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

7.10.2008

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 October 2008

amending Decision 2007/365/EC on emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the
spread within the Community of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier)

(notified under document number C(2008) 5550)

(2008/776/EC)

(4)

(5)

Decision 2007/365/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on Plant Health,

the

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

of

opinion

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In Article 1 of Decision 2007/365/EC, point (b) is replaced by
the following:

‘(b)

“susceptible plants” means plants, other than fruit and
seeds, having a diameter of the stem at the base of over
5 cm of Areca catechu, Arenga pinnata, Borassus flabellifer,
Brahea armata, Butia capitata, Calamus merillii, Caryota
maxima, Caryota
cumingii, Chamaerops humilis, Cocos
nucifera, Corypha gebanga, Corypha elata, Elaeis guineensis,
Livistona australis, Livistona decipiens, Metroxylon sagu,
Oreodoxa regia, Phoenix canariensis, Phoenix dactylifera,
Phoenix theophrasti, Phoenix sylvestris, Sabal umbraculifera,
Trachycarpus fortunei and Washingtonia spp.;’.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 6 October 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000
the introduction into the
on protective measures against
Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products
their spread within the Community (1), and in
and against
particular the fourth sentence of Article 16(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 2007/365/EC (2) requires Member
States to adopt measures to protect themselves against
the introduction and spread of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus
(Olivier)
In addition, Member
States are to conduct official annual surveys for the
the specified organism or evidence of
presence of
infection by the
specified organism on plants of
specific Palmae species in their territory.

(the specified organism).

The official annual surveys carried out in 2007 by the
Member States show that the specified organism also
infected plants of Palmae species which are not defined
as susceptible plants in Decision 2007/365/EC.
is
appropriate that the emergency measures provided for
in Decision 2007/365/EC apply also to those plants.

It

The results of the emergency measures laid down in
Decision 2007/365/EC were assessed by the Standing
Committee on Plant Health in April 2008.
It was
concluded that the list of susceptible plants should be
updated.

(1) OJ L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 139, 31.5.2007, p. 24.